Artificial intelligence ventured into new territories when Ai-Da, the robot artist’s painting, sold for $1.08 million at a closed auction in New York. The drawing was of the British mathematician Alan Turing.

The “world’s first ultra-realistic robot artist” has sold a portrait of Alan Turing – the codebreaking trailblazer of modern computer science – for over $1 million. The sale marks the first work of art by a humanoid robot to be sold at auction (although,